Section (legacy) #

This page is for designers who maintain older templates. {section} was the general-purpose loop and condition of early template versions; it still works (eZTemplateSectionFunction) and still appears in shipped templates. New templates use {foreach}, {if} and {def}.

Contents #

1. Reading it
2. Converting it

Reading it #

{section name=Child loop=$children}
    <li>{$Child:item.name|wash}</li>
{section-else}
    <li>{'None'|i18n( 'design/mytheme' )}</li>
{/section}

• loop= the array (or a number: loop that many times).
• name= a namespace; inside, the current item is $Child:item, the key $Child:key, the index $Child:index.
• section-else runs when the array is empty.
• show= makes the section a condition: {section show=$node.can_edit} ... {/section}.
• sequence=, max=, offset=, {delimiter} work like their foreach counterparts.

Converting it #

Convert a template completely, then compare the output of a few pages before and after.

Related pages #

• Foreach loops
• If and conditions
• Free documentation: this page is free to copy, translate and improve under the GNU FDL 1.3.